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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [2]
- The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
- Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [3]
Problems
- Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [4][5]
Changes later this week
- Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using
<translate nowrap></translate>on the source page. [6] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).
Future changes
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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.
Problems
- There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [11]
- Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [12]
- Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a
Page for printinglink. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [14]
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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Big Reference Weekend 2020[change source]
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| Thank you for taking part in the Big Reference Weekend 2020. As a team, we helped make 177 pages better! Every change helps, big or small. Well done! Yottie =talk= 09:58, 22 July 2020 (UTC) |
Kindly provide feedback on my work[change source]
Mufti Mujeeb Ashraf Sahab Qibla
- Hi, please consider asking this on Wikipedia:Simple talk. Chenzw Talk 10:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Vicious user Quakewoody[change source]
Greetings to the esteemed administrator of Wikipedia. This user has ignored your edit in Ebrahim Darvish and has left a comment for him.This spare user Is closed to several wikis Please close it.Thankful
- The editor is free to nominate an article at RFD even if a previous quick deletion has been declined. Chenzw Talk 10:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
@Quakewoody:--Trade (talk) 15:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- those Iranian IP addresses usually means it is a Mh6ti sockpuppet, which makes total sense considering who created that article. Quakewoody (talk) 17:27, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- Quakewoody, who is Mh6ti? Vermont (talk) 12:28, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- Mh6ti is the name I remember his as, but his globally blocked sockpuppet vandalism goes back long before that. Quakewoody (talk) 12:44, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- Quakewoody, who is Mh6ti? Vermont (talk) 12:28, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- This wiki does not have enwiki's equivalent of CSD G5. You will need more than "created by banned user" as a reason for deletion. Chenzw Talk 01:24, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- He is a self-professed hacker. Nothing he edits is reliable. With a history of, what appear to be legitimate, page creations on one site to use as a source on another. Even many of his photo uploads, they are often photoshopped or CGI type of creations. here is his IMDB and every wiki. Quakewoody (talk) 12:53, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [15]
- The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.
Problems
- The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [16][17]
- Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [18]
- Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [19]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
NGC[change source]
Oh well, NGC is famous for having items which cannot be found or are misdescribed. By allowing an unsourced claim to stand we are saying something like: "if it's a number, it must mean something". I'm saying we should not have it because there is no evidence it exists, and there is no source for it. Is there a better reason? Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:12, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- This galaxy appears to have been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope already, and there are published papers mentioning this: [20] [21] [22]. In my view, lack of sources does not automatically mean something is a spoof, and even if the article is a hoax, I personally don't think it meets the standard required by QD A6 ("obvious" hoax). Chenzw Talk 15:58, 27 July 2020 (UTC)